A simple and yummy addition to bring authenticity and color to your Thanksgiving feast is Candied Orange Peels with Cranberries. Our Founding Mothers depended on citrus to protect their families against disease and their ingenuity at preserving food, combined with the skill of the Native Americans in cultivation ensured survival in the birth of our great Nation. Sugar was …
A HEART MOST WORTHY by, Siri Mitchell
One of my favorite parts of a Siri Mitchell novel is the cover! Seriously, could you walk past this book at the store and not pick it up? And of course, once you’ve picked it up and glanced at the back cover blurb, you are going to buy it! The intricacy and detail of the dress are what you find …
FRIDAY’S FAVORITES, AN INTERVIEW WITH DOROTHY LOVE
I am thrilled to have with me today Dorothy Love, Thomas Nelson author of The Hickory Ridge Series. She is a delight to talk to and if you haven’t had the chance to check out her website, www.dorothylovebooks.com, you must! She serves up a fresh pot of Writer’s Caffeine and shares the Inside Story, too. It’s truly a beautiful website and …
BLUE SKIES TOMORROW by Sarah Sundin
As I eagerly awaited the arrival of my preordered hard copy of BLUE SKIES TOMORROW, I picked up my Kindle and downloaded the E version. When I opened my package from Amazon I was already half way through the book! I opened to the last page I had read, buried my nose in it and breathed in the sweet smell …
INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR SARAH SUNDIN
I had the pleasure of meeting Sarah Sundin at the Mount Hermon Writer’s Conference last April. Her warmth and genuine interest in others spills over in her bubbly personality and when she talks about research her energy is infectious! A graduate of UCLA and UC San Francisco, she’s a mom of three and works as an on-call hospital pharmacist. She and her …
Sarah Sundin’s A MEMORY BETWEEN US
I had the good fortune to sit at the same dinner table with Sarah Sundin at the Mount Hermon Christian Writer’s Conference in Santa Cruz, CA, last March and enjoyed hearing about her journey to publication, of which Mount Hermon played a big part. Her first book, A DISTANT MELODY, came out in March of 2010, quickly followed by her second, A MEMORY …
To Dad . . . Love, Me
On Father’s Day I like to write notes to my dad and remind him of the warm memories of growing up that helped shape me into the person I am today. Most all of those memories are of the fun times we shared, but there are a few that were painful. Sometimes what hurts the most has the most relevance …
Christine Lindsay’s SHADOWED IN SILK
From the moment I opened the book I felt in the midst of the mysterious and exotic world of India. Ms. Lindsay’s rich descriptions will dazzle your senses. When Abby Fraser arrives by ship with her young son, Cam, you already feel her anticipation of the difficulties that await her. The contrasts that confront her on the dock, the splendor of colors washed in bright, hot …
Rules, rules, rules! A season for all things.
Most writers today, writers of fiction, will find there are myriad rules to follow in order to write a really good book of fiction. And for the unpublished writer hoping to catch the eye of an editor, the rules had better be followed. I know there was a time when that wasn’t true for the most part. Show don’t tell was not necessarily the …
THE SPEECHMAKER AND THE SPEECHMASTER
Dad’s physical recovery from his stroke was amazing and that is mostly due to his incredible health and physical condition before his heart surgery. Taking care of a farm and horses, chopping wood and building fences, cleaning his home and preparing his meals kept him in shape. He quit smoking his cigars and pipes years ago and was careful about his …